Reconceptualizing Vulnerability and Safeguarding in the Humanitarian and Development Sector

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL ISSUES

Social Politics Pub Date : 2021-01-07 DOI:10.1093/SP/JXAA040

G. Daoust, S. Dyvik

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract:Since 2018, "safeguarding" has been hailed as the answer to abuse, exploitation, and harassment in the humanitarian and development sector. However, safeguarding as a concept relies on conceptions of vulnerability, which are rarely critically interrogated. Bringing feminist, postcolonial, and critical disability studies to bear on what is conventionally viewed as an apolitical policy response, we argue that the need for safeguarding should be located within wider racialized, gendered, ableist, and geographic structures of power within which the sector is embedded. We conclude with theoretical reflections and directions for change centering intersectional and repoliticized conceptualizations of vulnerability and thus safeguarding.

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重新定义人道主义和发展部门的脆弱性和保障

摘要：自2018年以来，“保障”一直被誉为应对人道主义和发展部门的虐待、剥削和骚扰。然而，保障作为一个概念依赖于脆弱性的概念，而这些概念很少受到批判性的质疑。将女权主义、后殖民主义和批判性残疾研究与传统上被视为非政治性的政策回应相结合，我们认为，保障的必要性应该放在更广泛的种族化、性别化、能力主义和地理权力结构中，而该部门正是嵌入其中的。最后，我们对以跨部门和重新政治化的脆弱性概念为中心的变革进行了理论反思和指导，从而保障了脆弱性。

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Social Politics Multiple-

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4.70

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10.50%

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